Turnout figures include spoilt ballots.

Some election officials have discretion to include ballots where the strict criteria for acceptability are not met but the voter's intention is clear.

The figures include most absentee ballots.

In any election, the attorneys said, disqualified ballots would include unpunched ballots, as well as those in which people voted for more than one candidate.

But the other lawyer, who said he is now consulting with the Gore campaign, said the judge had included dimpled ballots.

In addition, many counties included ballots without postmarks at the time of last week's count, despite Democrats' arguments that they should be excluded.

In heavily Republican counties, county canvassing boards reviewing the ballots on Friday often decided to include military ballots that had no postmarks.

Some were disallowed because they included fake ballots, and others because they had more votes than authorized.

And because they want any such counting to include slightly indented ballots, they spent hours presenting testimony on how easy it is to partly punch a hole.

Turnout figures are the sum of the votes for each candidate only and do not yet include rejected ballots.